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Computational class field theory

Number Theory 2021-03-30 v2

Abstract

Class field theory furnishes an intrinsic description of the abelian extensions of a number field that is in many cases not of an immediate algorithmic nature. We outline the algorithms available for the explicit computation of such extensions.

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@article{arxiv.0802.3843,
  title  = {Computational class field theory},
  author = {Henri Cohen and Peter Stevenhagen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3843},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

33 pages. To appear in "Surveys in algorithmic number theory" (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

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